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Disease Prevention

Within the field of Disease Prevention, our college has a focus on prevention through understanding the causes of diseases and illnesses. 

Research Projects in Disease Prevention

Arizona Prevention Research Center

Researchers

Scott Carvajal, Maia Ingram, Melanie Bell

Selenium Chemoprevention: Benefits and Harms

Researchers

Elizabeth Jacobs, Paul Hsu

The Firefighter Multicenter Cancer Cohort Study: Framework Development and Testing

Researchers

Jeff Burgess, Stephanie Griffin, Jin Zhou, Elizabeth Jacobs, Sally Littau

Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study-Coordinating Center

Researchers

Eyal Shahar

Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study

Researchers

Eyal Shahar

Honoring Your Gift

Researchers

Sheila Parker

Arizona Smokers' Helpline

Researchers

Cynthia Thomson, Nicole Yuan, Leila Barraza, John Ehiri

Cancer Prevention in the Fire Service: Exposure Assessment, Toxic Effects and Risk Management

Researchers

Jeff Burgess, Stephanie Griffin, Jin Zhou, Elizabeth Jacobs

Development and Dissemination of an Online Training for Environmental Health Professionals: Legionellosis Prevention and Response

Researchers

Kelly Reynolds, Douglas Taren

Arizona’s Pesticide Use Registry and Vital Statistics Birth Certificates: A Rich Potential Resource for Studies of Associations Between Exposure to Pesticides and Health Outcomes among Farmworkers

Researchers

Paloma Beamer, Melissa Furlong

Health and Wellness of Women Firefighters

Researchers

Jeff Burgess

Border Health Surveillance Mobile App Enhancements

Researchers

Kacey Ernst

Enhancing Community Support of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions

Researchers

Kristen Pogreba-Brown, Kacey Ernst

Adherence to latent TB infection among at-risk populations (TXT4MED)

Researchers

Melanie Bell, Lynn Gerald

Stress and Asthma in public schools

Researchers

Lynn Gerald

Feasibility of Latent TB screening among migrant farmworkers on the border

Researchers

Plan4Health: Rural Cycling Hub

Researchers

Martha Moore-Monroy

A Gender- and Culturally-Sensitive Weight Loss Intervention to Reduce Incidence of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Hispanic Males

Researchers

David O. Garcia, Melanie Bell

Kidenga Fever: Viral Social Marketing for a Participatory App to Track Emerging Pathogens

Researchers

Kacey Ernst

Texting Teens about Wellness and Skin Cancer

Researchers

Robin Harris

R25T Cancer Prevention and Control Training Grant

Researchers

Iman Hakim, Elizabeth Jacobs

Evaluation Pima County Communities Putting Prevention to Work

Researchers

Maia Ingram

Canyon Ranch Center for Prevention and Health Promotion/Arizona Prevention Research Center

Researchers

Scott Carvajal

A New Hip Fracture Risk Prediction Tool Based on Common Predictors and Hip Geomer

Researchers

Zhao Chen

Transfer and Control of Infectious Microbes in Emergency Vehicles

Researchers

Kelly Reynolds

Statistical Methods for Neoplastic Prevention Trials

Researchers

Paul Hsu

Mechanisms of Gastric Mucous Cell Metaplasia

Researchers

Molecular epidemiology of C. difficile food contamination: links to human CDAC

Researchers

Kelly Reynolds

Understanding health effects of waterpipe tobacco smoking

Researchers

Iman Hakim

Modeling Dietary Contributions to Arsenic Dose and Methylation: Elucidating Predictive Linkages

Researchers

Jeff Burgess, Robin Harris

VPR SEED grant - ITN use for malaria control

Researchers

Kacey Ernst

On the Edge: Aedes aegypti dynamics on the boundary of its natural range

Researchers

Kacey Ernst

Partnership in Native American Cancer Prevention

Researchers

Francisco Garcia

Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA)

Researchers

Eyal Shahar

Clinical study of disposition and biological activity of Limonene

Researchers

Iman Hakim

Migration of Soil Particles to the Indoor Environment: Implications for Risk Assessment

Researchers

Paloma Beamer

Development of a Program to Increase Colorectal Cancer Screening in Arizona

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